I am a professional member of the Ivors Academy and a widely respected songwriter and singer, and have written songs which have had millions of online streams (The Longest Johns; Bowker & Morse), and now write for smaller projects, and work with songwriters to help them get the best out of their song ideas. While I write prolifically for my own performance projects in local circles, I am also no stranger to writing to a brief, and love to stretch my creativity in new ways. Get in touch to see what I can do for you!…

Josh Bowker

I am a professional member of the Ivors Academy and a widely respected songwriter and singer, and have written songs which have had millions of online streams (The Longest Johns; Bowker & Morse), and now write for smaller projects, and work with songwriters to help them get the best out of their song ideas. While I write prolifically for my own performance projects in local circles, I am also no stranger to writing to a brief, and love to stretch my creativity in new ways. Get in touch to see what I can do for you!…

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I am a professional member of the Ivors Academy and a widely respected songwriter and singer, and have written songs which have had millions of online streams (The Longest Johns; Bowker & Morse), and now write for smaller projects, and work with songwriters to help them get the best out of their song ideas.

While I write prolifically for my own performance projects in local circles, I am also no stranger to writing to a brief, and love to stretch my creativity in new ways. Get in touch to see what I can do for you!

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Skills

Experience Level

Acapella
Expert
Lead Vocal
Expert
Vocal
Expert
Theme Tune
Intermediate
Jingle
Intermediate
Backing Vocal
Intermediate
Hook
Intermediate

Language

Work Experience

Singer & Songwriter at The Longest Johns
July 4, 2012 - January 28, 2022
I was a founding member of popular sea shanty group The Longest Johns, and wrote some of their most listened-to songs, including Retirement Song, Hammer and the anvil, Four Hours and Barge Ballad. I continued to write for them after I left as a performer, but stopped after they decided to take on more of the writing themselves.
Singer & Songwriter at Bowker & Morse
July 28, 2022 - Present
I am co-lead vocalist in a capella duo Bowker & Morse, and write the majority of the songs.

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Media & Entertainment
    uniE603 The Hare - a protest song
    I wrote this song as a protest song for the right to roam in England, where so much of the land is enclosed by a rich minority, and it is illegal to walk over much of the countryside. The song was inspired by the hare depicted in Nick Hayes' book 'The Book of Trespass', who recognises no borders and lives a peaceful, unhurried existence. Here it is sung by my folk duo Bowker & Morse.…
    uniE603 A Quiet Place - an ode to nature
    I wrote this song as a celebration of the effects of getting out into nature and wild places. Being in places that own their own wildness gives us permission to own our wildness too. Here it is sung by my folk duo, Bowker & Morse.…
    uniE603 The Nights Are Made Long - a folk song for winter
    I wrote this song as an ode to the wintertime and the opportunity the short days present for drinking and singing into the night. Here it is sung by my folk duo, Bowker & Morse.…

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